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Retail Asia26/01/2022
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M1 Limited (M1) has announced an exclusive partnership with market-leading cloud gaming specialist Blacknut, to bring an all-you-can-play 5G-powered cloud gaming service to Singapore. Boasting the world’s largest catalog for cloud gaming, Blacknut has a unified gaming platform that is fully integrated within the M1 ecosystem, enabling users to have unlimited access to more than […]

Retail Asia24/09/2020
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Google is bringing Android 11 to Android TV devices, the search giant revealed today. Several performance enhancements and privacy improvements will be part of the new Android update, as well as a plethora of new features specifically designed for the TV. Among these improvements, Google mentioned enhanced memory management, one-time permissions, and support for Auto Low Latency […]

Retail Asia06/06/2019
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SK Telecom has revealed plans to offer the world’s first live TV sports broadcast using a 5G network for the SK Telecom Open 2019 golf tournament. The tournament, which will be held as part of the KPGA Korean Tour, will be live broadcast on JTBC’s dedicated Golf TV channel and OTT video service oksuku using SK […]

Retail Asia30/05/2019
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For years telco revenues as measured in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) have been on a decline. As consumers and business acquire a taste for broadband and mobile broadband connectivity, operators are pressured to offer bigger and faster pipes and to do so more cheaply lest competition from OTTs and mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) […]

Retail Asia01/04/2019
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Mobile technology company Fortumo is providing its Trident Bundling Platform for India’s BSNL to help the state-owned operator distribute Amazon consumer services in the market. With the integration, BSNL is offering subscribers one years’ subscription to the Amazon Prime shopping and entertainment platform on certain of its plans. The Trident Bundling Platform is designed to […]

Retail Asia21/03/2019
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A new study from Juniper Research found that 3.5 trillion business A2P (Application-to-Person) messages will be delivered by 2023, up from an estimated 2.5 trillion in 2019, a 40% growth. The new Juniper Research paper, A2P Messaging: SMS, RCS & OTT Business Messaging 2019-2023, forecast that the rich media interactivity of RCS (Rich Communications Suite) would make […]

Retail Asia20/03/2019
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More than four in five (81%) operators in Asia-Pacific plan to deliver 5G services to major live sports and esports event organizers, according to research conducted by Ovum for Amdocs. The research found that operators in the region view sports events such as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as an opportunity to create new enterprise services grounded in […]

Retail Asia19/06/2018
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Industry insiders say local Over-The-Top service providers should act together instead of against each other. Vietnam is seeing a trend of people switching from traditional TV to over-the-top (OTT) media services which allow them to watch movies and other shows on the internet. In a recent survey done by Kantar Media Vietnam, an information and […]

Retail Asia13/09/2017
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Singtel has expanded its OTT video portal app CAST to incorporate the video on demand streaming service HOOQ. HOOQ, a joint venture between Singtel, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros, has a library of over 20,000 movies and TV series. It has launched across SEA and in India. Movies are available on the platform up […]

Retail Asia12/04/2017
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PCCW Media said its Viu OTT video service has reached over 6 million active users in one and half year after launch and is driving 3G/4G acquisition and mobile data consumption for its telco partners in the region. Speaking at Broadband Forum Asia in Hong Kong Tuesday, Helen Sou, senior vice president and digital media […]

Retail Asia12/01/2017
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Operator voice and text revenues will continue to be eroded by competition from OTT messaging services and social media, with the consumer migration to these services costing network operators nearly $104 billion this year, according to Juniper Research. The impact of OTT substitution will be the equivalent to 12% of operators’ service revenues, the research […]

Retail Asia07/12/2016
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TiVo and Netflix have signed licensing agreements that allow both companies to deliver a better entertainment experience to consumers. A product agreement calls for TiVo to continue integrating Netflix into TiVo set-top boxes available to consumers through a select, but growing number of pay-TV providers and retail stores. Customers will benefit from the integrated offering, […]

Retail Asia02/12/2016
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PCCW has announced that its Viu OTT video service has reached 4 million unique users one year after launch. Viu is now available in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, offering a range of premium Asian video content. Viu’s content library includes Korean content from the top four broadcasters, as well as […]

Retail Asia29/11/2016
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Singtel has launched over-the-top (OTT) movie and TV service Hooq to its customers in Singapore, 22 months after the company announced the joint venture with Sony and Warner Bros. Hooq has been available for some time as a rival to Netflix via Singtel associates in the Philippines, Thailand, India and Indonesia, but it is now […]

Retail Asia17/11/2016
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Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holding’s mobile division 3 Hong Kong is offering a year’s free subscription to its premium subscription TV and VOD service to all new and existing 4G users. The mobile version of the myTV SUPER and TVB Premium subscription VOD service will be made available free of charge. A 12-month subscription has […]

Retail Asia09/11/2016
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HKBN has expanded its relationship with broadcaster TVB covering the delivery of TVB’s myTV SUPER set-top box service. The operator has ordered an additional 450,000 set top boxes from TVB to meet customer demand, and has raised its target for the number of set-top boxes to be installed by the end of 2019 to 850,000. […]

Retail Asia20/09/2016
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Cisco is teaming up with LeCloud Computing to drive the development of Digital Rights Management (DRM) through its leading VideoGuard Everywhere DRM solution. The two companies have built a DRM cloud platform that makes cloud services global. It is compatible with multiple DRM protocols and able to provide one-stop solutions. With this, the two companies […]


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